Friday, 13 April 2012

A Mockery Within A Mockery

TS, an 11 yr old girl, says the following when describing her second sighting of Pimpleman, which supposedly took place at 12.25/12.28 on May 2nd 2007:

"That on this day she didn’t go to school as she was sick, suffering from an infection in her right ear. Even so and being somewhat better, by 12H00, she went out alone, as her mother was working, accompanied by the dogs, heading to the..."

Ridiculous.

How could they make a child say such ridiculous and absolute utter tripe? Those were my exact thoughts when I read this part of TS’s statement.

You see, I as a child I was quite prone to ear infections, so I know how much pain and discomfort they cause, and how long they take to heal.

What should one avoid when one’s suffering from an ear infection? Well, for one, “When suffering from an ear infection, be sure to protect yourself from cold or avoid visiting cold climates if possible. Cold weather can cause a painful ear infection to worsen.”

NO WAY a child with an ear infection at 08.00 in the morning, serious enough to have stopped her from going to school that day, would, just 4 hours later, at 12.00, stroll around outside on a cold windy day.

Just based on this we could end this post right away and consider as proved that TS’s second encounter with Pimpleman was an absolute absurdity, thus nonexistent.

Either TSdidn’t have an ear infection and went to school that day and didn’t see Pimpleman as she say she does, or she did have an ear infection painful enough to stop her from going to school and so didn’t see Pimpleman because she wouldn't have been able to leave her house at the time and manner she describes she does.

It’s as simple as that.

Just out of curiosity, it would be very interesting to have the Police ask the International School of the Algarve (ISA) for the register of this particular absence, as well as its justification, and verify if TS did indeed miss school on May 2nd 2007. Just a suggestion.

But let’s pretend we’re fooled by the 11 yr old girl.

Let's pretend that we believe that she either had the ear infection the day before, the Portuguese Labour Day holiday, and was feeling much better and didn’t go to school just to be on the safe side so the infection wouldn’t get worse, or even go as far as to pretend to believe that she was able to overcome an ear infection in just 4 hours.

She says that she leaves her house with 2 dogs at 12.00, stops 3 times to shop, at 2 supermarkets and 1 pharmacy, and returns home at 12.35.

I don’t know about you, but I take around about 10 minutes to do a "quick" shop.

It involves going in, finding what I want, even if I already know what it is and on what shelf it is, walking up to the cashier, having the goods registered and paid for, bagging them, picking them up and leaving. That, done at a leisurely pace, takes me around 10 minutes, as I said.

However, if I’m being pressured to return home like when I have visitors coming and I suddenly discover that I’ve run out of an essential ingredient and must to dash off to the nearest supermarket before they arrive, I’ll certainly take less than that, provided I’m not delayed at the checkout by with other customers.

Nowhere does TS mention in her statement any pressure to do her shopping, so I would say that 10 minutes would be the time she would also take in each one of her shopping locations. Maybe a little longer at the pharmacy because there you just don't walk up to the counter and take a box of ear plugs.

Take into account that it’s around noon, the time tourists be will doing their “lunch” shopping, so there’s a likelihood of finding other customers at both supermarkets lining up at the checkout, which means then those 10 minutes in these two locations would also not be sufficient.

Add to that that TS has to, at each location, tie up the two dogs she’s with when going in and untie them on her way out, so that’s an extra minute or two. By the way, in her detailed report, TS does forget to mention this in two of the shopping occasions.

If you take 10 minutes per shopping location, then TS’s trip is physically impossible. She would have spent 30 minutes shopping and that would mean she would have only 5 minutes to walk about 1,330 metres.

That’s the distance she says she walks in 35 minutes:

This distance, marked each 100 metres, passing by Alisuper (1), the pharmacy (2), Baptista (3) and Pimpleman (yellow star) is measured from, and to, the nearest crossing to her house, so one still has to add the time and distance it takes from there to where she lives, accompanied by her two dogs and with the shopping on her return.

So it’s impossible for her to have spent the “normal” 10 minutes per shopping location. She had to spend less time than that at each location. The amount of time spent is directly related with the speed she walked between them. The faster she walked, the more time she had.

We do have a clear indication the speed she did walk on that particular day. She says that it takes 7 minutes from the spot she sees Pimpleman to her house, and that’s about 350 metres.

Before we determine what walking speed that represents, one really has to wonder how does she know that.

Although not in the direction she takes to school (when going to school it's downhill, while the direction she's talking about is uphill), could it be that she timed it then? Why choose that specific point? Even if it was because it was her grandma’s ex-house, why time it?

She’s also not a tourist, so not a user of the Ocean Club (if she was, she would know that that entrance is not a reception but just an entrance where some say that some OC Staff like to leave dinner reservation books open on convenient pages...)

So the questions remain, how does she know that it takes exactly 7 minutes from there to her house? And why?

Did she rehearse it before going to the PJ? If so, why?

Let’s forget that minor detail and move on. If she says it takes her 7 minutes, it’s because, for whatever reason, she knows it’s that time it takes her. After all, we’re before a very “credible” and “reliable” girl, aren’t we?

To take those 7 minutes to walk 350 metres, it means walking 50 metres per minute. That’s a speed of 3 km/h. Really slow.

This means she would have taken, not withstanding a patience that the dogs wouldn’t have, 26.6 minutes to walk those 1,350 metres. That would leave 8.4 minutes to do shopping in 3 different places, which in turn makes it be less than 3 minutes per shopping location.

Unlikely? No, simply impossible.

But, say you, you’ve said in the Alice post that on May 30th she would be walking around 6 km/h, didn’t you?

Yes I did.

And I also said then that 6 km/h was a fast and determined pace to be walking.

I justified that speed with two factors that existed on that particular occasion: that they were going downhill and that it was that the dogs were setting the pace, so much so that they even forced TS's mom, an adult, and TS, to cross the street.

But let’s on this occasion also put TS being pulled by the dogs at a walking speed of 6 km/h. That makes the round trip to have been done in 13.30 minutes, which in turn allows for 7.2 minutes per each shopping location.

A much more plausible time for each shopping location, though a little tight. She would have to arrive, stop and control the dogsthat were controlling her (they are setting the pace and dogs don't come with breaks), find where to tie them, walk in and quickly find what she was looking for, which in the pharmacy would also require that she’d have had to have a “quick-paced” employee helping out, be the only customer at the various checkouts, pay, quickly walk out and untie the dogs, and quickly be on her way... quickly.

Can you imagine the exhausted state in which she would have arrived home? And what for? You haven’t forgotten she would have done all that with an ear infection have you?

But let’s once more be absurd and say that it’s plausible.

Even so, TShaving arrived home exhausted wouldn't be her biggest problem with this tale.

Her biggest problem to having been able to have seen, and observed, Pimpleman would be coherence.

Remember why TS’s mom didn’t see Pimpleman? Because she was too focused on being pulled by two apparently very impatient dogs, right?

Now, who’s holding the leash? TS is, and is doing it all alone.

So if TS was being pulled by the dogs and walking at that fast and determined pace, breaking this rhythm only to stop to shop, would she be able to take notice of anyone in her path? Her mom didn’t, did she?

It was for exactly that reason that her mom didn’t see Pimpleman in the first sighting. She was too focused on what the dogs were doing and where they were forcing her to go.

Then we must apply the same principle with TS on this day, mustn’t we?

If you were to ask TS with how many people did she cross with in Rua Direita, she wouldn’t be able to tell you because she wouldn’t have paid any particular attention to anyone under the circumstances, which is understandable.

Nor would she have paid any attention to a man, Pimpleman, who just happens to be standing on the other side of the street, in Rua Dr. Francisco Gentil Martins.

She would have been on the last leg of her exhausting trip, so how possibly could she have made a connection between him and the man she had seen for only 5 seconds two days before?

And how, please do tell, could she possibly notice the detail that he had a pen dangling from one of his pockets?

But this is me supposing that she was walking in a hurry, right? But was there any reason for her to be in one?

As far as I can see, there’s only one reason for her to have been, possibly, in a hurry, and that would be that she needed, or thought she needed, the ear plugs urgently.

Not seeing any possible urgency related to buying chocolates or seeded bread.

But if you’re headed with urgency for the pharmacy for those ear-plugs, why buy the chocolates or seeded bread in separate locations? We know, she tells us, that Alisuper doesn’t sell the seeded bread she wants, but doesn’t Baptista sell chocolates? And if the urgency was the ear plugs, why buy chocolates first?

Why walk the extra 200 metres, or more, if you’re in a hurry, and make that detour all the way to Alisuper just for chocolates?

And if there was some sort of emergency, why take the dogs? They could’ve been left at home like they are everyday when TS is at school and her mom at work, couldn’t they?

And who tells TS to buy seeded bread? Her mom, who has left her home sick with an ear infection calls her and tells her to go and buy bread?!? How sensible is that?!?

Couldn’t mom just do that on her way home?

So, about the bread, what we have is an 11 yr old child deciding to go out with the idea of buying just chocolates and ear plugs. Pulled by two dogs, she buys the chocolates, dashes to the pharmacy and buys the ear plugs and then, and only then, remembers to buy what? Seeded bread!

What 11 yr old wouldn’t remember a thing like that?

To sum it up, we either have an 11 yr old child with an ear infection walking normally outside on a cold windy day and NOT having the time to do what she says she does, or we have the same an 11 yr old child with an ear infection dashing outside, on a cold windy day, being pulled by her 2 dogs and shopping at an unreasonable and incredible speed.

I can just hear the piano playing in the foreground with Charlie Chaplin doing his skidding around the corners...

But say you, in her defence, that when she says 12H00, it could mean she was saying "around 12H00" which could mean from 11H30 onwards...

That wouldn’t make her be the “precise” and “reliable” witness they all say she is, would it? Besides you are shortening the healing time for the ear infection aren't you? But, as always, I’ll pamper you. I’ll say that all of the above is possible.

You know what really gives her game away? Her visit to Baptista.

This is what she had to say:

“Next she went to the "Baptista" supermarket to buy seeded bread, as they don’t sell it at the "Alisuper." She left the dogs tied at the rear entrance of the "Baptista" and went to buy the bread. She paid, went out of "Baptista", picked up the dogs and crossed the supermarket’s hall to the main entrance, about four / five meters, which faces the street where she had seen the individual.”

She says that coming from the pharmacy she ties the dogs at one of Baptista's entrance, shops, picks up the dogs and crosses the 4/5 metre long supermarket’s hall to Baptista's other entrance, the one that faces the street she says she saw Pimpleman.

Didn’t she say she saw Pimpleman in a pathway? Yes, we all know that the pathway does lead to the street, Rua Dr. Francisco Gentil Martins, and to which Baptista has an entrance, but we’re just pointing out how someone who’s trying so much to be very precise, sometimes just isn’t, and one either has that personality trait or one doesn’t.

But what is terribly serious and most disturbing about this part of her statement is that she says the following:

Represented In red where she walks with the dogs and in blue, where she walks without them. She clearly states that she has walked with animals inside a supermarket.

This is such a serious offense that it could costBaptistaits licence.

Let me appease the Baptista owners that I’m not denouncing anything, because I don’t believe a word TS has said, much less ever having been animals inside your supermarket.

But it would make an interesting face-to-face discussion, if the PJ decided to have one arranged between TS and whoever was working at at Baptista on that particular noon, it certainly would.

After all, she didn’t have to cross that hall, did she? She did have other options:

In blue, she could have tied up the dogs at the rear entrance of Baptista, gone in and out, and continued up Dr. Francisco Gentil Martins, or in red, she could have tied up the dogs at main entrance, gone is and out, and use to the pathway that leads to the same street.

What? You say that she says “left the dogs tied at the REAR entrance of the "Baptista” and went to buy the bread "...

Hmmm... she does say that, doesn’t she? But she also says that “"picked up the dogs and crossed the supermarket’s hall to the MAIN ENTRANCE, about four / five meters, WHICH FACES THE STREET where she had seen the individual.”

We seem to be having a problem of identifying which is the MAIN and which is the REAR entrance to Baptista. Let me help you with some pictures:

Which one do you think is the MAIN and which one do you think is the REAR? I think it’s pretty clear that TS has the Baptista entrances all mixed up.

She also a little bit confused about the dimensions of the place. She says she crosses the 4/5 metre long Baptista supermarket’s hall with her dogs, whereas it seems to be more like 15 metres:

We know that any 11 yr old, not just TS, hasn’t yet assimilated the correct notions of space, but to confuse a distance by its third a little bit too much.

In our opinion, the confusions she makes with the size of the hall and the rear vs main entries, as well as deeming possible walking dogsinside a supermarket makes it quite clear that she’s not familiar with the place or may even not ever have set foot there.

And why should she? Locals, the ex-Pats are included, tend to their shopping in larger commercial places located in Lagos. Small supermarkets like Baptista and Alisuper are more expensive and have less variety and are basically destined for tourists.

And any possible for last minute shopping, it seems that Alisuper is the best options as it's much nearer TS's house than Baptista.

This ignorance shown about Baptista only comes to reinforce our strongest suspicions that her daily walk to the school bus, wasn't done via Rua Dr. Francisco Gentil Martins, as she states when describing her first sighting of Pimpleman.

Well, we’ve shown how unrealistic are the variables presented by TS for her second sighting, which, in our opinion means that, realistically, it’s completely unrealistic.

So why does TS make up this whole story, or better yet, why does someone tell TS to tell the story this way?

Because, as I’ve told you before, a liar has to guide you through his lying tale, doesn’t he?

The liar cannot allow you to get the wrong impression, and that is exactly what he wants to do, to make an impression on you. Create in your mind what hasn’t ever happened.

So TS, on this second sighting is supposed to see Pimpleman in completely different circumstances than when she saw him the first time, which is stupid because if she had just said that when she was heading for the pharmacy, she had again seen the man she had seen two days before but this time in front of the OC entrance, she would have been much more credible, wouldn’t she? Yes, there's the question of seeing him still there when returning... but what's the problem of seeing the same person twice in the space of, say, 20 minutes?

After all, one thing we can say about Pimpleman is that the man certainly seems not to have wanted to hide himself from anyone, right?

But no, TS has to convey that she has gone the other way around... and approaches the man, although in the same area, from a different direction, as if that would give greater credibility to her story.

Which is just that, a story.

So she takes her dogs and ear infection down Rua Direita, Alisuper, pharmacy, Baptista, and up Rua Dr. Francisco Gentil Martins, appearing before Pimpleman in the opposite direction from which she had in the first sighting.

That's why she needs the chocolates at Alisuper so she can go by Rua Direita, the ear plugs so she can go right downtown and the seeded bread to avoid retracing her steps from the pharmacy and conveniently head towards Pimpleman. All in the sake of making you believe she’s not a liar. But by doing that she achieves the opposite which is to prove that she is indeed one.

With the ear infection, the dogs, the chocolates, the ear plugs, the Baptista entrances, the seeded bread and the 7 minutes, we can say beyond reasonable doubt that TS didn't see Pimpleman that day...Nor did she see him on the first sighting.We can safely say that TS has LIED about her sightings of Pimpleman, a person she never saw, and that if we were to base our opinion solely on her "credible" and "reliable" testimony, doesn't even exist.

We repeat that we think TC to be absolutely unaccountable for what she said, and maintain that the responsibility restsonall those that put her in this mess, on all those that orchestrated, very stupidly, allher actions in this and on allthose that allowed for that to happen.

Notes:

The parts of TS’s statement made on May 9th 2007, as per PJ Files, pages 801 and 802, used in this post, in English and in it’s original Portuguese:“(...) nor did she see him again until on May 2, Wednesday, after the holiday.

That on this day she didn’t go to school as she was sick, suffering from an infection in her right ear. Even so and being somewhat better, by 12H00, she went out alone, as her mother was working, accompanied by the dogs, heading to the "Alisuper" supermarket, located in a street perpendicular to Rua Direita, where she bought €3.63 worth of chocolates. Next she headed towards the pharmacy that is, in a lateral perspective, below the “Baptista”, supermarket, where she bought a box of ear plugs, in order to prevent water penetration, spending €4.55. Next she went to the "Baptista" supermarket to buy seeded bread, as they don’t sell it at the "Alisuper." She left the dogs tied at the rear entrance of the "Baptista" and went to buy the bread. She paid, went out of "Baptista", picked up the dogs and crossed the supermarket’s hall to the main entrance, about four / five meters, which faces the street where she had seen the individual. She started to walk up the road on the left sidewalk, in the ascending direction, having then seen the individual, this time in front of the "Ocean Club" reception, observing, she assesses, the two side windows of the house and part of the balcony. She thinks he could also have been looking at other houses that are in the same direction.

Then when going uphill she passed right in front of the individual, having observed him directly, an act to which he didn’t retaliate as he never looked at the deponent. The distance which she observed him corresponds to the width of the road.

After going past the individual, she went towards her house, by the road on the right, not looking at him again, nor turning her head back to observe him better.

After that she never saw him again.

As said before she left home at 12H00 and returned at 12H35, so she would have crossed with the individual at 12H25/12H28 (the remainder path takes seven minutes).

The second time he was wearing the same windbreaker, this time closed, as the day was colder than the first one, with wind. She didn’t notice the other articles of clothing. She refers that on this day he had a pen with a clip hanging from one of the pockets.”

23 comments:

The ear infection thing also made me somewhat "uncomfortable", there was something not quite rigth about it, but I shied away from commenting because I thought I was being ridiculous, overly suspicious of everything and anything! My thoughts on the subject as I read it were, "why did she miss school? It is not contagious and obviously she is not all that ill if her mother allowed her to go and walk the dogs, and DO SOME SHOPPING?!". I also thought, "maybe she is a little 'truant', and faked the illness to miss school and enjoy a leisure day to walk about the streets of Luz with the dogs". But, her mother is in the health care business, she surelly would spot the "ruse" and not fall for it! Also, if the girl's condition was REAL, and her mother considered it serious enough to stay away from school, why would she give her daughter a shopping list?! I don't think the girl did the shopping out of her own decision, "oh, we're out of milk and bread, and we need some detergent too, I'd better go to the shops"...where would she get the money to pay for the goods? No, she must have been following her mother's instructions, left with money to do the shopping and reminded not to forget to take the dogs out for their midday walk. The mother works in Luz, she could have done the shopping herself on her lunch hour, surelly she would go home to check on her daughter, who was obviously left home alone, otherwise someone else, whoever was caring for her, would have walked the dogs and do the shopping.By the way...just to finish my long comment, two more thoughts:First - here we have an 11 year old girl, supposedly so ill she had to miss school, LEFT HOME ALONE AND UNSUPERVISED, which was bad enough, but on top of it, she is asked to walk the dogs and go to the shops ALL BY HERSELF!(I never dared to let my son out by himself at that age, but hey, I'm a portuguese mother-hen) Second - it is highly unlikely the girl would take the dogs with her if she intended to got to the shops. Here in Portugal dogs are not welcome in shops, it's s well known fact, she had to tie the dogs outside in all the 3 places she visited, how inconvenient! What if there was no suitable structure she could tie the dogs to in one of the places? What would she do, leave the dogs loose on the street? It's not like she went for a walk with the dogs and remembered to pick up something on the way, it was a planned shopping trip, she visited 3 places, and being the portuguese attitude towards animals what it is, I'm sure no one would think of taking TWO dogs along on a "multiple shop" shopping outing!Finished! Sorry for the long post...

I feel a bit silly now...I apologize to Textusa and the readers of the blog for repeating in my comment things that have been adressed by Textusa in her comment. I must confess that I wrote my comment BEFORE reading the entire post (shame on me!), here's the reason for what it seems now a very repetitive and silly comment.I apologize, and promise to try not to jump into the comment box before reading the full posts!Sorry...

As you quite rightly point out the unrealistic time spent negoiating the child's round trip with her dogs dosn't figure into possible dog fouling issues and of its obvious impact on taking the dogs on what was a quick shop. Nobody, in my opinion, especially a child, would take their dogs, with the possibility of street fouling and cleaning same, on a quick visit to various stores. And again, not a sick child at that.

I know customs differ from country to country, but would you as a parent, send your 11-year old daughter to the shops alone? (based on Textusa's maps, we are not talking of the shop round the corner here, but shops that were a fair distance away). Would you give her the responsibility of walking the two dogs by herself? (based on previous entries, the dogs were somewhat of a handful) - what if they had gotten into a fight?Nah ... this reeks of poor parenting or something written by Clarrence.

We don't believe that the linkage between those involved in this affair was a professional one, so, in that aspect, it's perfectly irrelevant what TS's mother's profession is.

However, if she's indeed an health profession it only proves even further that TS's ear infection is more scripted than real,

Anon Apr 14, 2012 7:11:00 AM

You're right about the ear plugs. When I had an ear infection the last thing I wanted was having someone to touch me anywhere near that area, much less put some plugs in... I didn't pick up on that detail because my mind wandered off with the translation of "evitar a entrada de agua", which lead my subconscious to think she wanted to protect her ear with something while having a bath/shower (as it wasn't raining) and linked that with the unrealistic healing time. If she did heal that impossibly quick, and wanted to have a bath/shower (makes as much sense as walking dogs with an ear infection) then there are many other ways to stop water penetration that can be found at home, which would mean that the shopping trip would have been only for chocolates and seeded bread. Thank you for calling that to our attention.

One of the symptoms of an ear infection in children is a very high fever, my children's temperature often are in the 39 Celsius range and plain pain & fever medicine such as paracetamol doesn't normally help, the temperature only lowers once they have had antibiotics for at least 24 hours. The discomfort & pain only starts feeling better after 48 hours of antibiotics. If you don't need antibiotics you don't have an ear infection, but maybe simply ear ache. My husband, a medical professional sometimes has patients whom doesn't feel any relieve after 24 hours and I have heard him mention to them, that they should just wait another 24 hours. This is not for ears, but a tooth absyss. The principal is the same. If the child said she had a ear infection, one has to check the doctors records to see how she was treated. From looking at how my children lie down from a high temperature, there is no way she could have walked anywhere. Or she simply had an ear ache or lied about having an ear ache and continued lying. When you lie about having an ear ache and your mother allows you to stay at home and not go to school, it also is only fun for awhile until you get plain bored. Has this child have the habit of lying? I know you are not blaming her, but the adults that use her... so then they may have a habitual problem with lying, a serious one at that. On the other hand, one of my children has a problem with lying and I have to be wide awake and listen to a lot of stories and many witnessess, before I get to any conclusions. He is 11 years old.

I think that even more stupid than claiming to leave home with an ear infection is to say she leaves the house with the dogs. If the dogs forced her mom to change street sides the girl would have been scared to walk the dogs herself. If they were strong enough to drag an adult, what could a child be able to do to control them? TS would never risk being literally dragged by the dogs. It wouldn’t be a question of good sense but out of natural fear that a child that age would feel having seen what the dogs were able to do with her mom.I think that the map picture was very fortunate. Looking at it, it’s clear that it’s an impossible tale.

It´s very sad adults using a child to transmit a story that want to adults only. I feel sorry for this child aged 11, at the time. How is it now as a teenager? Does she have a sense of what they did and the use made of her? I also think it is very important here in this blog, this post and other related dismantled and show what happened to her.The producers of Mock (Mockumentary) are unethical people. I'm not talking much of Edgar which I consider a slave couple. Well, the money received does not justify join this fraud. He should not have accepted such a role of director ..... filming, the script.A lot of people collaborated on all the lies to justify the actions of the couple and lies about the situation that happened in that apartment.

This group, when using so many people, from adults to children made everyone lied.Adults who lied .One child was also used to lie. They , all, lied and all lie always in this case.A huge team from 11years old to 80 years to lie.

I’ll just highlight the relevant parts of your comment, because, the rest, as you intended it to be, is just “flower arranging” around what you really want to say:

“If you don't need antibiotics you don't have an ear infection, but maybe SIMPLY ear ache.”

“Or she SIMPLY had an ear ache or lied about having an ear ache and CONTINUED lying.”

“I know you are not blaming her, but the adults that use her... so then THEY MAY HAVE A HABITUAL PROBLEM WITH LYING, a serious one at that.”

“On the other hand, one of my children has a problem with lying and I have to be wide awake and listen TO A LOT OF STORIES AND MANY WITNESSESS, BEFORE I GET TO ANY CONCLUSIONS. He is 11 years old.”

I didn’t say she had an ear-infection. I used TS’s wording, and an 11 yr old is not exactly an age one should trust for medical diagnosis.

But the fact that you make a subtle connection with the words “SIMPLY” and “ear ache” is intentionally minimizing the symptoms, of discomfort and pain, that an ear ache causes. It may not be as severe as an ear infection, but it hurts and impairs one from play or walking out on the street on cold windy days pulled about by two dogs while shopping.

Also you’re implying that TS’s mother exercised the sort of parenting by which she SIMPLY accepts the word of an 11 yr old saying that it she has an ear ache (or a tooth ache) and leave her alone at home and goes to work.

If TS is possibly, as you imply, an habitual liar, plays hookey and then makes herself conspicuous by shopping all over accompanied by dogs, why would anyone believe her story anyway?

Her mother must have taken her to the police interview and would have intervened to say what her daughter was doing at home when she should have been at school. Some explanation would have been given, like she felt unwell but later felt well enough to go out.

The ear infection story was told to explain the ear plug shopping.

But it’s interesting about you saying that the ADULTS around her have a big problem with her lying problem.

Adults who take her to the Police, and set up, two year later, a significant filming event all just led by a child who fibs about a SIMPLE ear ache?!?

You know what important information that your comment contains? It’s that TS gets to know and really understand what kind of friends she was convinced, when she was 11, to lie for: those that now say she’s a COMPULSIVE LIAR. That's the respect they have for her.

That includes TS’s mother. You know, you even may be right about TS being a compulsive liar, after all she seems to have been subject to such a role model.

We've said that TS has lied very clearly. As clearly as we also said that she was told to lie, not because she was any sort of compulsive liar.

About your 11 yr old son, if you provide good role modelling of honesty he will probably grow out of the unpleasant habit of lying to his parents.

You have already dealt with the issue at hand in detail in a previous post and I absolutely agree with you. When I read your posts I turn them around in my head and look at them from all different directions. I am a bit long winded, but you have the gift of really bringing things together in a nut shell and that has helped me to realize to what low levels adults are willing to stoop to. It becomes more shocking by the minute. Thank you for that and keep up the interesting posts.

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- At the time of Maddie's death the Praia da Luz's Ocean Club was hosting a large swinging holiday (which we believe took place in various locations in and around Praia da Luz - from Lagos to Sagres) in which the McCanns and friends were part of among many others.

- After Maddie's death a cover-up of unseen proportions and scope took place not to hide Maddie's death but with the main purpose of hiding the presence of swinging. To achieve that, Maddie's death had to be hidden.

- We don't believe there was any sort of negligence involved in the Maddie affair. We don't believe that T9 dined at Tapas Bar from Sunday to Wednesday. We think that on those nights they left their children with professional nannies - as did other guests - to go dine downtown PdL. On Thursday night they did use Tapas but that was simply part of what was to be "negligence"that was required to allow Maddie to be "abducted."

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Anonymity

A MAJOR MINORITY

TRUTH is Self-Sustained

Think for yourself

Luz - THE VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED

PdL - What a place. Why does anyone holiday there?It's populated by black heroin addicts, people who rob apartments, gypsies who steal scrap and wood, scruffy moustachioed lurers of children, bogus charity collectors, suspicious street musicians, men lurking near phone booths, glasses man lurking in stairwells, blond men suspiciously lurking outside apartments, soothing couples entering apartments without permission, mysterious gangs of cleaners, men taking photographs of children on beaches... And to top it all, you have to queue for a table booking.Anonymous 11Nov 2013 12:22:00

Maybe because you can always enjoy an ice-cream in the rain?And a dip in an icy pool on arrival always attracts a crowd.Textusa 11Nov 2013 12:28:00

I like the Tapas fragile chairs and tables. They wobble nicely when cutting thick grilled steaks spilling the drinks all about! It's fun for the whole family!Anonymous 11Nov 2013 13:08:00

And how about the number of men seen carrying little blond girls in the street in the middle of the night?Anonymous 11Nov 2013 14:04:00

PdL - where families take it in turn to vomit each night, dog packs pursue and bite joggers, guests fall off catamarans, damage tendons playing tennis, have shaving accidents and stagger around apartments bleeding, domestic appliances need repair, shutters jam, baby monitors won't function at restaurants, travel cots can't be assembled.. sounds like THE VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED.Anonymous 12 Nov 2013 12:37:00

Child Catcher

Algarve - THE REGION OF THE DAMNED

“Algarve – Where Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s Child Catcher found it ideal to roam the streets with his GYPSY-wagon:“There are children here somewhere. I can smell them. Come along, kiddie-winkies!”Algarve, the REGION OF THE DAMNED.”

Please Reconstruct I:

PJ's Declaration for Reopening Process:

"Madeleine McCann

As is the case with any situation in which a child goes missing, notwithstanding formal dismissal of the inquiry into her disappearance, and just as has always been publicly stated, the Polícia Judiciária never stopped paying close attention to any and all information that might possibly shed light on the whereabouts of the minor Madeleine McCann, the circumstances surrounding her disappearance and the identity of the perpetrator(s).

It was with this goal in mind that in March 2011 the National Director of the Polícia Judiciária entrusted a team of investigators from the North Directorate with the mission of reassessing, as a whole, the vast amount of information gathered during the inquiry, aimed at identifying data for which a more in-depth investigation might be useful and possible.

The reassessment which took place over the last two years and a half suggested new evidence to have surfaced, which, requiring the investigation to proceed, meets the requirements set out by section 279(1) of the Portuguese Code of Criminal Procedure for reopening of the inquiry.

Accordingly, a request for reopening was made to the Public Prosecutor for the jurisdiction of Portimao, and approval granted by the latter. "

The Anne Guedes Transcriptions

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Quote

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Mark Twain

Revelations

"For the righteous, a revelation is a joyous event, the realization of a divine truth but for the wicked, revelations can be far more terrifying, when dark secrets are exposed and sinners are punished for their trespasses." Quote from the TV Series "Revenge" (T2 - Ep9)

Truth

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.Arthur Schopenhauer

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.Winston Churchill

The Revolution

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.George Orwell

The Revolution Goes Viral

"Once information networks become social, the implications are massive: truth can now travel faster than lies, and all propaganda becomes instantly flammable. Sure, you can try to insert spin, but the instantly networked consciousness of millions of people will set it right: they act like white blood cells against infection so that ultimately the truth, or something close to it, persists much longer than disinformation"The Guardian (04Jan12)

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts Winston Churchill

PRECIOUS, SO TRUE, WORDS

“One coincidence, two coincidences – maybe they’re still coincidences. Any more than that and it stops being coincidence.”

Kate McCann

(in MADELEINE, by Kate McCann, published in 2011 by Bantam Press, pg. 328)

Imagine...

"This says it all, Ms Loach hit the nail on the head!

"Ms Loach replied: “Imagine the public believing that you covered up your child’s death and then sought to make money out of it. They feel shame, humiliation and anguish."

Yes, that's exactly what we, the public, believe, because that's exactly what they did! And, their "shame, humiliation and anguish" are because they know we know!"

Comment posted by Anonymous to Textusa at Sep 16, 2013, 8:36:00 AM on "McCann vs Amaral Libel Trial" post referring to Mockumentary maker Emma Loach's testimony on the 1st day of said trial as one of McCann's defense witness.

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Sound Explanation for Viciousness

Compliments from the Maggots' Lair:

- “…all the others pale into insignificance when compared to textusa.”

- “I think she should be on the streets and off the internet"

Chinagirl):

- “Disgusting piece of slime.”

(Raptor):

- “Yikes ! That's disgusting.”

(preciousramotswe):

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Out of the Blue (or... Black?)

Hey textusa How are you? well I hope,just thought I would tell you that there are videos about you on youtube, claiming you are an internet predator who stole her daughters identity and prowls the forums for young boys, they say you are welsh!! I think its a case of mistaken identity because are you not portuguese and male? Anyway great blog. keep it up.(Anon., Nov 13th, 05:43)

Conversation from the "Lightless Zone"

sabot:

“Wot Round Table?”

bonnybraes1:

“He/she/it invented a barking mad 'theory' about no-one actually having eaten in the Tapas, because he/she/it couldn't grasp the table arrangements.”

So, because textusa doesn't understand stuff like that, all the Tapas group, the staff, everyone, were lying.

OMG - you don't suppose textusa is actually Gonc, do you?”

sansouci:“Could be Bonny.

The 'theories' about the table and the watersports are really so far beyond bizarre, that I get the feeling that 'textusa' could actually be 'pisstaka'.”

BLACK BUT TRUE WORDS

“Because no-one is more vicious in their search for payback that those who realise they have allowed themselves to be taken for a fool” (A "boomerang" comment left by an Anonymous (Insane?) at Sep 22, 2012 2:06:00 PM)

Insane's IMPORTANT Comments

“…How would any of you idiots like it if your name came into the public domain because you were witness to a crime, and some mad bitch set up a site in which she called you a liar, and claimed you were actually involved in the crime you witnessed? Just ponder on that for a moment”

Aug 28, 2011 9:27:00 AM

“…Where is your sense of shame or decency in accusing innocent witnesses of being involved in covering up the death of a child?

I see no shame or decency on here - just an utter indifference to the rights or feelings of others.

I notice no-one had the balls to answer my question about how you would feel if this was done to you - if you were a witness to a crime and some deranged cow on the internet accused you of being involved. You are all a complete disgrace.”

Aug 28, 2011 1:09:00 PM

FOOT IN THE MOUTH DISEASE

Insane (Nov 14, 2012 11:37:00 PM):

Oh look here - amazing what one can find out by means of a couple of emails to Mark Warner.

You are toast, lady. Finished.

I am going to enjoy this more than is actually decent.

Textusa (Nov 15, 2012 8:50:00 AM):

Well it seems that you're quite privy with the Ocean Club aren't you?

Them giving YOU the information about their own mails?

And you threatening us based on information that YOU apparently got from the Ocean Club.

That's really interesting, isn't it?

Insane (Nov 15, 2012 10:47:00 PM):

One thing I really like about Mark Warner is how helpful their staff are. Really go the extra mile for someone needing information. IYKWIM

:)

Textusa (Nov 16, 2012 11:17:00 AM):

Thank you for confirming that Mark Warner Staff are supplying YOU with information pertaining the Maddie Affair.

Insane's Moment of Rare Beauty

“It would be more suspicious if every account tallied. Police expect to find contradictions, don't tell me you did not know this?” (Nov 22, 2012 3:38:00 PM), when providing an opinion on contradictions from various statements in the PJ Files.

“I don't give a rat's arse about the statements which tally too closely - of course some of them tally too closely, there is an in depth analysis of them on my blog, the one you are not invited to.” (Nov 22, 2012 4:08:00 PM), when, exactly 30 minutes later, provides an opposite opinion, in this case about the fact that some of Tapas' Staff's statements tally too closely.

Insane the Entrepeneur?

"I'd love to stay, but I have a report to write, and it won't do itself, will it?" (Nov 29, 2012 8:14:00 PM)Insane the Disruptor, a new profession shown inNew Career Opportunities

Insane's Proposal for a New Legal Disclaimer

Textusa's new disclaimer. Please ignore all previous versions

''This blog expresses exclusively the exchange of ideas and opinions between people who have sniffed WAY too many solvents, and the imaginary people who live at the bottom of their garden, and so is not responsible for the enormous fines, possible imprisonment, or lifelong incarceration in a mental hospital which may result from it's content, as although it is on the interclickyweb, it is of a private nature, accompanied only by the voices in their heads, very much like any other conversation which takes place in a psychiatric ward between people rocking backwards and forwards in their seat and eating the wallcoverings, where FREEDOM OF SPEECH is exercised in the half hour per day of free association which the inmates are allowed.''Comment NOT published but submitted on Aug 22, 2011 10:17:00 PM

Kate's Round Table

INSANE'S BLOG

We waited so long for the link...

A possible explanation for the wait: "As I have made perfectly clear, you and your sort will never have access to my blog. We are particular about who we invite, and would not include screaming harpies and riff-faff like yourself."unpublished comment from Insane at Nov 23, 2012 10:55:00 AM

Then, a glimmer of hope?“Publishing elsewhere the posts Textusa refuses to publish is also appropriate - and also gives you fools a chance to read what she withholds from you, knowing that you would desert her if you were aware of how much trouble she leads you into.” (Nov 29, 2012 12:40:00 PM)

No, it wasn’t to be so… :“For the last time, you will never be provided with a link for my blog - you are not welcome there and will never be given access”(Nov 29, 2012 1:38:00 PM)